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Alec Kirkley

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Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Interested in statistical physics, networks, complex systems, and cities. Webpage: aleckirkley.netlify.app

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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 23h
Abstract deadline extended to October 10th!
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited for NetSci-X 2027 in Hong Kong! Send your abstracts by Oct 1st (possible deadline extension coming soon), and see netscix2027.github.io for more details.
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NetSciX 2027 — International School and Conference on Network Science
NetSciX 2027 — International School and Conference on Network Science. January 24–27, 2027, Hong Kong SAR.
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited for NetSci-X 2027 in Hong Kong! Send your abstracts by Oct 1st (possible deadline extension coming soon), and see netscix2027.github.io for more details.
netscix2027.github.io
NetSciX 2027 — International School and Conference on Network Science
NetSciX 2027 — International School and Conference on Network Science. January 24–27, 2027, Hong Kong SAR.
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 20/09/2026
Mathematicians: “Math isn't really about proofs, it's about understanding!” Physicists: 👀 terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/i...
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If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit…
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The 2026 Erdos-Renyi prize goes to Laurent Hebert-Dufresne!! #NetSci2026 @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Information theory for hypergraph similarity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Information theory for hypergraph similarity
Information theoretic principles are used to derive a hierarchy of hypergraph similarity measures.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com:

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Nine majors "sunsetting":
• Classical civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• Digital humanities
• Fine arts
• German
• Latino-Latin American studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Modern Jewish studies
• Russian
ALTThe First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy
Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education.
The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin).
Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership.
By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
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Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
As we approach @netsciconf.bsky.social , we are announcing our keynotes for the FRIENDS satellite! Among them is Ruisheng Wang from Harvard Medical School! We are also accepting abstract submissions until *this Thursday*! signet-friends.github.io See you in Boston! @signet-friends.bsky.social
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Andreia Sofia Teixeira @asteixeira.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
As we approach @netsciconf.bsky.social , we are announcing our keynotes for the FRIENDS satellite! Among them is Alec Kirkley from the University of Hong Kong! We are also accepting abstract submissions until *this Thursday*! signet-friends.github.io See you in Boston! @signet-friends.bsky.social
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
3 more days until the SINM deadline!
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
8 more days to submit! We have a great lineup of invited talks including @alicepatania.bsky.social, Yinqiu He, and Mark Newman. See sinm.network for more details!
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨🚨🚨 NetSci Hackathon PSA!!! Are you at NetSci this year? Wanna come a day early and hack on a cool new dataset? Join our hackathon which will take place on May 31. We have limited space, so please indicate your interest through our application form by Mar 13: www.philchodrow.prof/higher-order...
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Join the Hackathon! – A Blue Start at Netsci 2026
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 20/02/2026
New on the arxiv: “Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions” arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks". w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social Explainer 🧵: 1/N
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Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions
We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Interested in giving a talk at @netsciconf.bsky.social but missed the main conference deadline? Submit your work to the Statistical Inference for Network Models (SINM) satellite! Send your one page abstract by March 15 and check out sinm.network for more details!
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Statistical Inference for Network Models
A NetSci 2026 Satellite Symposium
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
How complex should network models be? 🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior). 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 05/11/2025
Double feature, just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org: "Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction" Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag... Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Network reconstruction is the task of inferring the unseen interactions between elements of a system, based only on their behaviour or dynamics. This inverse problem is in general ill-posed and admits...
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 05/11/2025
Just out on @royalsocietypublishing.org: "Scalable network reconstruction in subquadratic time" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Previous explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/tiag... Code here: graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...
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Scalable network reconstruction in subquadratic time | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Network reconstruction consists in determining the unobserved pairwise couplings between N nodes given only observational data on the resulting behaviour that is conditioned on those couplings—typical...
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Gourab Ghoshal @gghoshal.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🚀 The University of Rochester is hiring in Complex Systems (Physics)! Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation. Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition. Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I believe science is much more like art than many scientists are willing to consider. I have a feeling that it would free us to do better science if we embraced this view. I may be mistaken but that's where I am mentally.
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arxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596
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George Cantwell @gcant.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference group at the University of Cambridge is seeking applicants for funded PhD positions. Anyone who wants to study networks/complex systems/statistical physics/inference can email me at gtc31@cam.ac.uk
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New papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Phys. Rev. X: Fast Nonparametric Inference of Network Backbones for Weighted Graph Sparsification link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/4pg6-mtmt
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to see this out! If you need to identify a network backbone but don’t know how to choose the number of edges to keep, here’s a Bayesian solution.
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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 19/11/2024
types of network science papers
A meme of different kinds of generic network science papers
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Eddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Are you a #postdoc in the US looking to next steps? The Austrian Academy of Sciences is opening up 25 fellowships: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n... A great reason to use our visitor program at #Complexity #Science Hub @csh.ac.at and see how you would fit in: csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 🧪🦋
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25 new scholarships for US researchers
Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”
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Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de · 29/06/2025
Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n... If you are interested; get in touch!
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25 new scholarships for US researchers
Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Nowadays, saying your lab is not doing AI (for something, or applied to something) is a revolutionary act. #ComplexSystems
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Starting the SINM satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social with an exciting talk by Daichi Kuroda!
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jgyou @jgyou.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
And the code is live here: github.com/DynamicaLab/... With @allard.bsky.social and the never-online Simon Lizotte (but you can find him at siliz4.github.io)
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GitHub - DynamicaLab/bigue: Bayesian inference of the hyperbolic plane embedding of complex networks.
Bayesian inference of the hyperbolic plane embedding of complex networks. - DynamicaLab/bigue
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Network Science Society has a new class of Fellows! Congratulations to the 2025 awardees: Francesco Bullo Guanrong Chen Hawoong Jeong János Kertész Renaud Lambiotte Philippa E. Pattison Mason A. Porter Eckehard Schöll Sara A. Solla
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The 2025 Euler Award in Network Science goes to Ginestra Bianconi! @gin-bianconi.bsky.social 👏
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded to Federico Battiston! ⭐
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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 05/05/2025
a thing I’ve noticed in my time in research: many people really want to believe that Data™ is some sort of magical object that contains objective truth but the thing is, just like everything else, data is _produced_ via processes and mechanisms that profoundly affect the shape of the data
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks - Nature Communications
Network alignment is a fundamental problem in several domains that aims at mapping nodes across networks. Here, the authors develop a probabilistic approach that assumes that observed networks are err...
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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
Finally, the preprint+Python package "neatnet" is out: arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198 github.com/uscuni/neatnet If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […] [Original post on datasci.social]
Sketch showing the street network simplification process.
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I've been guest editing a focus issue for Journal of Physics: Complexity with @jgyou.bsky.social, @gcant.bsky.social, and Cate De Bacco on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks. See iopscience.iop.org/collections/..., and feel free to get in touch with any questions!
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Focus Issue on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks - IOPscienceSearch
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Finished reviewing my pile of papers for a premier data mining CS conference today and then read their other reviews. Wow. They are utter garbage: largely superficial, thoughtless, and vague. We should be ashamed to call this #peerreview and inflict this misery on each other and on our trainees 1/2
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CEU Department of Network & Data Science @ceu-dnds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston! Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆 Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...
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Professor Federico Battiston Receives the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- and Econophysics
YouTube video by Central European University
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 21/03/2025
Happy that this just came out on PRX: “Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle” journals.aps.org/prx/abstract... 1/3
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Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle
A new information-theoretic approach to analyzing complex systems uncovers hidden networks by minimizing data complexity, a method that improves accuracy and efficiency.
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Every one of Tiago’s papers is a masterpiece. Give it a read if you work with networks constructed from different types of observations!
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Complexity and Networks CORE @complexity-core.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉 complexity-core.github.io 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.
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Complexity & Networks CORE
A hub for the Complexity and Network Science community to gather and share resources.
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Last day!
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Deadline for the SINM workshop at NetSci 2025 is approaching. Only 2 more days to submit! Please feel free to reach out with any questions and see sinm.network for details.
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Very important step in the right direction! PCI Network Science is an initiative aligned with these goals networksci.peercommunityin.org/about/about . Consider for your next submission!
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PCI Network Science
Peer Community in Network Science
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Complex Systems Society Manifesto About the Publishing and Evaluation Systems cssociety.org/about
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Alec Kirkley @captainkirk1041.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Missed the NetSci deadline? No problem! Submit your work to the SINM Satellite at NetSci 2025! We have an amazing lineup of speakers so far, including Michael Schaub, Vince Lyzinski, and @gcant.bsky.social. Revised deadline is Feb 20. See sinm.network for details.
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Statistical Inference for Network Models
A NetSci 2025 Satellite Symposium
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Mattia Mazzoli @mattiamazzoli.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨Happy to announce that EpiMob is back for a 4th edition @netsciconf.bsky.social 🙌 🏃‍♂️🦠Interested in behavioral data and public health? Join us in Maastricht in June 2025 🦠🏃‍♀️ The call for abstracts is open! Deadline is February 15 👉 epimob.weebly.com/call-for-abs...
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Announcing the "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" satellite workshop at NetSci 2025!! Apply at netsci.nascol.net/cfa before Feb. 7th! Organized with @zpneal.bsky.social, @vtraag.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, and @illegaldaydream.bsky.social!
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Call for Abstracts
A NetSci 2025 Satellite Workshop June 2 or 3, 2025, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Iacopo Iacopini @iaciac.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Another year, another edition!💥 Join #TopoNets25 at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht and send us your work on higher-order networks: structure, dynamics, methods, inference, software, topology, #TDA, etc. 📅 Submit by Feb 7th to give a contributed talk: sites.google.com/view/toponet...
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TopoNets 2025
The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past two decades, a great variety of complex systems has bee...
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